Online learning for developers

https://www.ibm.com/marketplace/learning-lab/courses/us/en-us

MySQL - instr

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/string-functions.html#function_instr

instr - if substring is present, it returns a +ve number, else it returns a 0
Note: if not present, it returns a 0 and not a negative number (like -1)

Related to web design

http://strml.net/

Related to Website Performance

https://www.voorhoede.nl/en/blog/why-our-website-is-faster-than-yours/

DuckRails is a development tool to allow developers to quickly mock API endpoints

http://iridakos.com/2016/04/01/duckrails-guide.html

Vue.js, Kuzzle.io

Building a Slack clone could be a good project to learn JS frameworks:

https://medium.com/building-a-slack-clone-with-vue-js-and-kuzzle-io

Building Real-Time App with React/Redux/Rails/RethinkDB - RedDotRubyConf 2016

• Short & Sweet talk
• for Real-time apps
• tools selected allow Declarative Programming

Book - High Performance Browser Networking

https://hpbn.co/

Excerpt:

"Performance is a feature. This book provides a hands-on overview of what every web developer needs to know about the various types of networks (WiFi, 3G/4G), transport protocols (UDP, TCP, and TLS), application protocols (HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2), and APIs available in the browser (XHR, WebSocket, WebRTC, and more) to deliver the best—fast, reliable, and resilient—user experience."

AWS Lambda related - Building Serverless Apps

https://auth0.com/blog/2016/07/19/building-serverless-apps-with-aws-lambda

Phoenix + Turbolinks as a replacement for a JS front-end framework like React

Phoenix + Turbolinks with server-side-rendering as a replacement for a JS front-end framework like React

https://robots.thoughtbot.com/how-we-replaced-react-with-phoenix
https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks

git: see changes in last commit

git diff HEAD HEAD^1

Quora homework incident

https://www.quora.com/Homework-Question-How-do-I-write-a-program-that-produces-the-following-output-1
Responses include programs written in 40+ languages.. :)

I posted an answer in Javascript just to be part of it.

JS Bin on jsbin.com

React related: Primer

http://patternhatch.com/2016/07/06/a-primer-on-the-react-ecosystem-part-1-of-3/

Mongodb - getting started

1) mongo
-  to launch mongo shell

2) db.adminCommand( { listDatabases: 1 } )
- to list the databases

3) use abc
- assuming 'abc' is one of the databases listed by command 2

4) db.getCollectionNames()
- to list all the collections
- i think we have to run our queries on Collections just like we would run queries on Tables in a Sql database

5) db.users.findOne()
- assuming 'users' is a collection

React related

Why you might not need MVC with React.js
http://www.code-experience.com/why-you-might-not-need-mvc-with-reactjs

Thinking in React
https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/thinking-in-react.html